Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was walking with my wife today through the Hong Kong Botanical Gardens and came upon two old Chinese Gentleman with a younger man assisting. They were using Leica SLs, one with a 180 lens and the other with his camera on a tripod - a set up with a Leitz two rail bellows and about a 400 mm lens (something I'm sure Doug Herr or Marc Small would have recognized in a moment) to take pictures of the flamingos clustered near the fence of their enclosure. I said hello to the man with the SL and the 180, said that I too used Leica and had been shooting the birds a few weeks ago with my 180f3.4 APO. He smiled but said little. The other photographer had his eye glued to his SL with the bellows attached and didn't want to be interrupted so we wandered off. From my experience with my 180 the fellow with the 400 will get the more dramatic pictures. It was a Leica moment. :) Howard. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html